Mets avoid a season sweep behind Syndergaard and Walker, but Lose Cabrera in the process

The Mets spent much of the last week slowly scrawling an obituary for a season that began with World Series aspirations. Day by day, the team slipped further and further out of a wild-card race that once seemed like a safe backup plan if it didn’t win the division.

So when the Mets fell behind, 4-3, to the Rockies on Sunday, on the verge of being swept in a four-game series, it seemed like one of the final lines in the season’s death notice. As Monday’s non-waiver trade deadline loomed, it was difficult to fathom why the team...